Orbital
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Brought to you by Penguin.
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.
Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.
The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?
'Beautiful in every aspect'
SARAH MOSS, author of Summerwater
'One of the most beautiful novels I have read in a very long time'
MARK HADDON, author of The Porpoise
'One of the UK's most exquisite stylists'
GUARDIAN
‘Awe-inspiring’
Max Porter
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- Sanya
- 20.12.2024
Beautiful idea but a bit tedious
Oh I was so excited to read this year’s Booker prize winner that was short and set in space! Like many others, I am tired of all the problems we humans have created on earth and wanted to read something different and uplifting. Which this book was in a way, but it was also entirely without plot or character development. It basically describes the daily life of 6 astronauts on the ISS, circling the earth in different orbits. In parts mundane, in others insightful, it is beautifully written but also highly repetitive and we never get close to the characters themselves. I’m sure the writing (which was often a list-like citation of which parts of the world they were orbiting) was meant to highlight this repetition and distance from normal life, but frankly I found it quite tedious. I loved the idea, but sadly the book didn’t work for me.
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